Anyone got any tips for a newbie to a v8 and 6speed? my last car was a 5spd firebird, so im use to a clutch but that thing you coudl jsut about stomp the gas and let out on the clutch and it turn em over one time and then pull hard for about 1/2 second =/.. so im gonna be making my first trip to the track with the Z after the swap sometime next week (if all goes well) and looking for launch tips on 18" wheels and street tires. all help appreciated

 

not 2 steal your thread but Im with you on this one, took my car to the track yesterday with M/T drag radials and had no problems hooking up but when tried to lunch the car hard it would jump like a bat out of hell then would bog down then take off again . am i relaseing the clutch to soon or not giving it enough gas. was launching in around 3000-3500 range, or are the tires just to much for a virtuly stock car only mods are DFC clutch, 13lbs billet flywheel, free mods, and pulleys. any info would be great for me as well as the other guy as well

 

Really I'd hold about 2500 at the line and release a bit slower than dumping it. Not ease out, but not feathering it either. You can sometimes catch it right in the place where you don't get sqweell or bogging.

 

Before I switched to slicks I found that about 2800 and slipping the clutch out worked the best. Given that you are running an 18" rim you are going to have a really hard time hooking out of the hole. (I'm assuming that you are keeping the stock tire height which means you only have a 30 height tire correct?) That being said, you don't have much tire to flex so you are more than likely going to spin regardless of how you launch. My advice would be to just launch from idle. I know its not as much fun, but I think you will get better results IMO.

 

actually stock height is 26".. and yeah thats what i have, 285/35/18... best 60' i ever got at a local track was a 2.1 not too bad for crappy prep and 18s i thought hoping to get my old 16s out of my dads garage for the trip, but he said i have to get tires for them first cause he bsaically bought them from me and doesnt mind me using the wheel but i cant use his tires lmao.. but so im looking at realease from idle smoothly but not slow and just ease on it till after 2nd like with the auto?